Man Strolls Out Of Store In New Suit Leaving Old Clothes Behind: POLICE

Claiming he forgot his wallet in his car, a customer walked out of a men’s clothier wearing a brand new Joseph Abbound suit and underwear, leaving his old clothes behind in the dressing room, reports said.

Wheaton police were called to Men’s Wearhouse at 49 Rice Lake Square for a retail theft report on Jan. 23.

The manager told police that the customer called him around 2 p.m. to pick up a new suit and wished to give his measurements over the phone to save time.

About an hour later, the customer arrived with another man. He tried on the suit jacket and pants, a dress shirt, undershirt, tie, socks, boxer shorts, a belt and a pair of shoes.

After he had tried on the new clothes, the customer instructed employees to throw away his old clothes because he needed to catch a flight to Indiana at O’Hare in an hour to attend his niece’s funeral.

Police said when he went to pay for the items, the customer told a store associate that he forgot his wallet in his car. The customer and his companion left the store and drove off in a silver Mercedes SUV, reports said.

Prior to officers’ arrival, they found the mugshot on Mugshots.com. Employees told police it was the same person who came into their store.

The customer was described as a male white in his mid-forties, 5-foot-6-inches tall, weighing 230 to 250 pounds, with gray hair parted down the middle in a bowl style cut.

The man with the customer was black, in his mid-twenties, about 5-foot-6-inches, with dreadlocks pulled back into a ponytail, and had a lazy eye..

Employees told police the customer frequently shops in the store and they’ve never had a problem with him in the past. That afternoon, he appeared intoxicated.

The total value of the stolen merchandise was $823, including:

• one charcoal gray suit jacket
• one pair of charcoal gray pants
• a white dress shirt
• a turquoise tie
• black dress belt
• a white undershirt
• one pair of dress socks

Police said the man left behind two of the three pair of boxer briefs and two of the three undershirts from their packaging in the dressing room, along with the customer’s old clothing.

The store said it would sign a complaint for retail theft.